Cultivating Global Sustainability – One Community Weekly Progress Update #272

Cultivating global sustainability will be most successful if it is replicable and engaged by diverse nations and skill sets. One Community is facilitating this process through open source and free-shared tools, tutorials, and resources covering all aspects of sustainability and the creation of sustainability teacher/demonstration communities, villages, cities, and hubs.

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• Here’s our world-change methodology
  
• Here’s how this becomes self-replicating
• Here’s how we are open source and free-sharing all the do-it-yourself designs

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One Community’s physical location will forward this cultivating global sustainability movement as the first of many self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world. This is the June 10, 2018 edition (#272) of our weekly progress update detailing our team’s development and accomplishments:

Cultivating Global Sustainability
One Community Progress Update #272

Here is the bullet-point list of this last week’s design and progress discussed in detail in the video above:

CULTIVATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY INTRO: @0:34

CULTIVATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING: @7:17

• Assembled the Murphy bed night stand in 3D using the assembly instructions and created a list of suggested improvements (see below)
• Michael Hagler worked with the core team to finish another round of edit requests for the Cob Village, and the Recycled Materials Village and integrated work for the Shipping Container Village into the website for the 7-villages book we’re developing (see below)
• Shadi Kennedy completed his 11th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions (see below)
• Dean Scholz continued with the Cob Village render updates (see below)
• Mike Kowalski finished his 10th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer (see below)
• Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru completed her 16th week working on the Tree House Village residential renders (see below)

CULTIVATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY – DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER: @9:06

• Began updating the bedroom renders in the Duplicable City Center to test the new lighting and color schemes (see below)
• Working with Dipti Dhondarkar, the core team continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center (see below)
• Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei continued work on the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Yun Lin completed his 9th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering (see below)
• Dehua Feng completed his 6th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center (see below)

CULTIVATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD FOOD: @10:45

• Continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development (see below)

CULTIVATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION: @11:32

• Began work on the Learning for Life – Transference of Knowledge resource by formatting the page, writing content, and adding graphics (see below)

CULTIVATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY – HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY: @12:04

• Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

CULTIVATING GLOBAL SUSTAINABILITY SUMMARY: @13:12

• Sowmya Manohar, Shubhra Mittal, and Swathy Jayaseelan continued work on the Highest Good Network software (see below)

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HIGHEST GOOD HOUSING PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating global sustainability through Highest Good housing that is artistic and beautiful, more affordable, more space efficient, lasts longer, DIY buildable, and constructed with healthy and sustainable materials:

• • • Learn about: Our Upcoming Crowdfunding Campaign
    • Learn about the different village models: 7 Sustainable Village Models
    • Visit the open source portals for the first two: Earthbag Village OS Hub | Straw Bale Village OS Hub

Assembled the Murphy bed Night Stand in 3D – Click for Page

And, the core team working with Michael Hagler (Senior Graphic Designer and Artist) also finished another round of edit requests for the Cob Village (Pod 3), for the Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6), and integrated Michael’s completed work for the Shipping Container Village (Pod 5) into the website, contibuting to cultivating global sustainability. This is also all part of the 7-villages book we’re developing.

Made Edits to Cob Village, Recycled Materials Village, and Integrated Work for Shipping Container Village into Site – Click for Highest Good Housing Page

Also, Shadi Kennedy (Artist and Graphic Designer) completed his 11th week leading the development of the Murphy bed instructions. This week Shadi renumbered all the parts to make referencing them easier and updated all the related steps, the cutting plan, and parts layouts.

Continued Leading the Development of the Murphy bed Instructions – Click for Page

Dean Scholz (Architectural Designer) continued with the Cob Village (Pod 3) render updates too. Here is update 117 of Dean’s work and this new render he’s working on that will show a section view of one of the units.

Continued with the Cob Village Render Updates – Click for Page

Mike Kowalski (Game Developer) finished his 10th week helping update our Recycled Materials Village (Pod 6) renders that are too big for anything but a gaming computer, in pursuit of cultivating global sustainability. This week Mike finished re-rendering the main render of the complete village, then we updated it across the entire website.

Continued Updating our Recycled Materials Village Renders – Click for Page

Mihaela “Michelle” Pinzaru (Interior Designer and Architectural Drafter) also completed her 16th week working on the Tree House Village (Pod 7) residential renders. This week she redesigned the stair access to the loft bed and added test furniture for the upstairs hostel living area. You can see this work-in-progress here.

Continued Working on Tree House Village Residential Renders – Click for Page

DUPLICABLE CITY CENTER PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating global sustainability through a Duplicable and Sustainable City Center that is LEED Platinum certified/Sustainable, can feed 200 people at a time, provide laundry for over 300 people, is beautiful, spacious, and saves resources, money, and space:

• • • Learn about this building and it’s function: Duplicable City Center Open Source Hub

This week the core team started updating the bedroom renders in the Duplicable City Center to test the new lighting and color schemes. We updated the furniture, checked all walls, doors, and windows, and added the correct lights.

Started Updating the Bedroom Renders in the Duplicable City Center – Click for Page

And, the core team working with Dipti Dhondarkar (Electrical Engineer) also continued developing the lighting specifics for the City Center. This is Dipti’s 80th week volunteering on this task and the focus this week was applying everything we tested with the different lighting fixture types and layouts so we could create (and add to the website) this final “1st-Floor Final Bedroom Lighting Distribution” graphic.

Continued Developing the Lighting Specifics for the City Center – Click for Page

Haoxuan “Hayes” Lei (Structural Engineer) continued work on the City Center structural engineering by creating the price estimates for the TJI beams and reviewing the joist design, some of which you can see here.

Continued Work on the City Center Structural Engineering – Click for Page

Yun Lin (Bridge Design Engineer) also completed his 9th week helping with the beam design and calculation spreadsheet creation for the City Center structural engineering, dedicated to cultivating global sustainability. This week he finished the wind load calculations for the roof.

Helped with Beam Design and Calculation Spreadsheet Creation for City Center Structural Engineering

Last but not least, Dehua Feng (Civil Engineer) completed his 6th week working on the fire suppression and safety systems designs for the City Center. This week he further researched horizontal sprinkler options, sensor and other options for triggering these systems, and further developed the AutoCAD sprinkler layouts for these and the in-ceiling sprinklers.

Continued Work on Fire Suppression and Safety Systems Design for the City Center – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD FOOD PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating global sustainability through Highest Good food that is more diverse, more nutritious, locally grown and sustainable, and part of our open source botanical garden model to support and share bio-diversity:

• • • Learn about the structures: Hoop House Hub | Aquapini & Walipini Open Source Hub
    • See what we’ll be growing: Gardens & Hoop Houses | Large-scale Structures | Food Forest | TA

This week, the core team continued writing the behind-the-scenes narrative and detailed food rollout plan for the various stages of development, contributing to cultivating global sustainability. We researched nitrogen fixers and worm digestion and added orchard grass and hay mulch benefits with accompanying articles. In addition, we incorporated hay vs. straw and the Ruth Stout mulching methods into the plan. Next, we organized and gave a final proofread to the assorted articles for the Garden Establishment section on pages 7-13, some of this you can see here.

Continued Writing the Behind-the-Scenes Narrative and Detailed Food Rollout Plan – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD EDUCATION PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating global sustainability through Highest Good education that is for all ages, applicable in any environment, adaptable to individual needs, far exceeds traditional education standards, and more fun for both the teachers and the students:

• • • Learn about the components: Education open source hub
    • Learn how the components work together: How to use the Education for Life Program
      

This week, the core team began work on the Learning for Life – Transference of Knowledge resource by formatting the page, writing content, and adding graphics. We’d say we are now 50% complete with this new page.

Began Work on the Learning for Life – Transference of Knowledge Resource – Click for Page

HIGHEST GOOD SOCIETY PROGRESS

One Community is cultivating global sustainability through a Highest Good society approach to living that is founded on fulfilled living, the study of meeting human needs, Community, and making a difference in the world:

• • • Read the Highest Good society overview: Highest Good Society
    • Learn about the model for fulfilled living and sharing: A Day in the Life
    • Learn about the 4 economic models: RBE | For-profit | Non-profit | Entrepreneurship
    • Learn about our open source community collaboration and management software: The Highest Good Network

This week, the Highest Good Network software team consisting of Sowmya Manohar (Software Engineer, Web Developer & Net Application Developer), Shubhra Mittal (Software Delivery Manager), and Swathy Jayaseelan (Software Developer) continued their work on the software. This week they added an Admin reset password option, checkbox-classification of users by active and inactive, made roles selectable and editable by dropdown, fixed user’s timelog header bar, fixed team and project hyperlinks, made ‘current week’ as the default selection for reports and ‘choose a range’ as a popup, removed past week data from charts other than the current week, changed the page layout in the charts page to match the mockup, and started working on the individual reports.

Continued Working on Highest Good Network Software – Click for Page

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WHAT ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING

One Community is creating a place to grow together and change the world together. We are creating a space that helps each other live in integrity with each other and the planet as we strive to be the greatest versions of ourselves, committed to cultivating global sustainability. We do this by harmoniously respecting each other, nature, and the rest of our one shared planet.

Our goal is to demonstrate what we feel is the most sustainable, healthy, and fun environment we can create. A place based on compassion, kindness, and collaboration. This replicable community will serve as an example for what is possible in terms of cultivating global sustainability.

Throughout our design process we are open sourcing and free-sharing everything needed for construction and replication. This includes what we call “Highest Good” approaches to food, energy, housing, education, for-profit and non-profit economics design, social architecture, fulfilled living, stewardship practices and more, all aimed at cultivating global sustainability. We are creating these resources for implementation as individual components or complete developments called teacher/demonstration hubs. These hubs will help launch additional hubs as awareness and knowledge grow.

BUILDING THE FIRST OF MANY

One Community will be the first teacher/demonstration hub. It will function as an experiential-learning model that facilitates mass participation to address humanity’s most pressing challenges through: A replicable model for expansion, building seven self-sufficient village/city prototypes, becoming the world leader in open-source sustainability solutions, and evolving and expanding ALL aspects of sustainable living for the cultivating global sustainability.

WHY ONE COMMUNITY IS CREATING THIS

The One Community self-replicating model is capable of creating a sustainable planet within 30 years through the cultivating global sustainability. We will achieve this by establishing successful teacher/demonstration hubs on every continent. Villages include designs appropriate for each of the five main types of climates. They also include options for even the most challenged economies, further promoting the ideals of the cultivating global sustainability. These hubs will collaborate with one another, share ideas, resources, and work together as a network to heal the planet. They will also transform the global lifestyle to a more enjoyable, fulfilling, healthy, and sustainable one.

The specifics of how One Community is accomplishing this can be found on the One Community Solution Model to Create Solution-creating Models Page. Research supporting and showing the benefits of a model like this can be found on our Research and Resources Articles Archive, furthering the cause of the cultivating global sustainability.

Even if we don’t achieve our ultimate goal of global transformation, a self-replicating teacher/demonstration model like this will take a relatively short period of time to positively affect millions while inspiring millions more, contributing to the cultivating global sustainability.  For One Community residents (the Pioneer Team), the idea of creating and sharing the social and recreational experience with visitors is also fun, exciting, fulfilling, and an additional reason why we are creating this.

INSPIRING SUSTAINABILITY WITH OPEN SOURCE

One Community’s four-phase strategy for the creation of solution models that create solution creating models uses open source blueprints for duplication that simultaneously address all aspects of the human experience (food, energy, housing, education, social inequality and injustice, fulfilled living, etc.). We see these areas as interdependent and requiring a comprehensive solution if humanity is to move ecologically, socially, economically, and permanently towards a truly sustainable future for everyone, ultimately aiming for cultivating global sustainability.

Our open source model and blueprints engage and inspire people while simultaneously making sustainable living more affordable and easy to replicate. By free-sharing the step-by-step plans people need for duplication, inviting people to participate, and demonstrating sustainable teacher/demonstration hubs as a more desirable way of living, the model will predictably expand on its own.

It is this approach we see uniting the world and leading to a new Golden Age for humanity. While we understand that not everyone believes this is even possible, we are nonetheless bringing together all those that do see this as possible as the non-profit think tank of forward-thinking individuals willing to design, build, and open source project-launch blueprint and free-share it for The Highest Good of All.

COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTION TO HUMANITY’S NEEDS

One Community is open source sharing an evolution of sustainable living that addresses the complete human experience, all in pursuit of cultivating global sustainability. We are doing this because we see the solutions for global food, housing, energy, education, social inequality, ethical business practices, earth regenerative practices, and a desire for a more fulfilling living experience as inseparably interconnected. As a comprehensive solution, we are addressing all these areas simultaneously and open source free-sharing everything needed for individual duplication and/or duplication as complete self-replicating teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities to be built around the world, all contributing to cultivating global sustainability.

As we address and open source share these areas we will establish a living example of the first teacher/demonstration village purposed to teach others the principles of cultivating global sustainability. To maximally facilitate duplication, One Community will provide seven duplicable examples and function indefinitely as a place people can visit and a non-profit and open source think tank continuing to further evolve and share solutions in all of the above areas and more. We will also provide hands-on experience and training. Most importantly, growing upon our sustainable foundation, we will endlessly make this comprehensive solution even more widely known and globally accessible, understandable and diversely duplicable, and inspiring and desirable as a model worth duplicating.

ONE COMMUNITY’S 4-PHASE STRATEGY

One Community is building solution-creating models designed to create additional solution-creating models to specifically facilitate exponential and sustainable global teacher/demonstration village growth. The following four phases of the strategy we are applying are designed to support each other and accelerate the process globally:

Phase I: Cultivating Global Sustainability by Demonstrating a Better Way

We are designing One Community to demonstrate an experience of living that we believe most people will consider to be better because it will be more enjoyable and fulfilling. We also think most people will consider it better because it is made possible specifically through a foundation of sustainable sustainability and a philosophy that is for The Highest Good of All.

Phase II: Cultivating Global Sustainability with Open Source Project-Launch Blueprinting

Everything we do we are open source project-launch blueprinting and free-sharing to make it as easy and affordable as possible to duplicate, adapt, and evolve in the manner that suits each individual and/or group’s needs. Free-sharing information like this is our aggressive-exposure engine and an aspect of One Community that will accelerate indefinitely as we continue to build our team, move onto the property, and continuously build and evolve everything that is One Community.

Phase III: Cultivating Global Sustainability by Inviting the World to Participate

Everything we are open source project-launch blueprinting is designed to invite the world to participate by duplicating it as either individual components or complete teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities that will be able to be built almost anywhere in the world. Additionally, people can join One Community as members, consultants and/or partners, or use the suggestions links on our open source project-launch blueprinting hubs to help with the design, implementation, and evolution process. Scholarships, weekend learning and work crews, and tourism will be foundations of One Community once we have sufficient infrastructure in place to support these options.

Phase IV: Cultivating Global Sustainability with Universal Appeal and Global Expansion

As One Community continues evolving and establishing ourselves, everything we create and promote will serve as the engine to inspire people to align with the concept of open source and sustainable living for The Highest Good of All. We are doing this to create mainstream appeal and our path to achieving this appeal is demonstrating a happier, more affordable, and ecologically friendly model of living that can be built anywhere in the world.

Open source project-launch blueprinting it all is how we believe the model will spread and, possibly most importantly, that it will predictably spread even faster in the areas where it is needed most because building restrictions, the cost of land, and materials costs are in most cases lower in these areas.

WHY OPEN SOURCE

We are creating everything One Community does as open source and free-shared blueprints because we see this as the path to a new Golden Age of creativity, innovation, cooperation, and collaboration for all of humanity. Our model is a solution model that creates additional solution creating models enabling people to live and collaborate globally for The Highest Good of All. The easier we make everything we do, the faster we see the world transitioning the faster we see the world transitioning towards cultivating global sustainability.

Every aspect of this model supports itself and contributes to its success, from the sustainable food, energy, and homes, to the social architecture, One Community Education Program, and open source sharing model itself. Each piece can be accessed, evolved, and even re-birthed as something completely new. It can be duplicated by itself or with other modules, with applications as diverse as the people who want and need them. The constantly expanding total model will additionally be able to be used in its entirety as the open source project-launch blueprint for a variety of duplicate teacher/demonstration communities, villages, and cities capable of being built virtually anywhere.

The most profound part is: the more we open source share, the more we help move everyone forward, the more people know about what we are doing and can participate, and the more successful and capable we are of project-launch blueprinting and sharing even more still. This is all supported and made possible because:

• We have the team to produce an extensive quality and diversity of tools and resources
• It gives us the opportunity to broaden the concept of sustainability and make it more desirable
• Areas we open source expand our ability to evolve even faster through global collaboration
• Each new area open sourced expands our target audience, advancing our world changing goals and contributing to cultivating global sustainability.
• The more we show our ability to share what we are creating, the more others will benefit and want to join this movement and mimic the part we are playing in it

OPEN SOURCE SHARING STRATEGY SPECIFICS

One Community’s open source strategy for cultivating global sustainability will evolve 5 primary types of open source content purposed to reach and service as broad an audience as possible. This includes the following mediums of sharing that are being developed to function as standalone resources or in combination with each other:

• Video tutorials
• Audio tutorials
• Live streaming video
• Direct/live interaction
• Written content and downloadable PDFs

Maximum exposure is accomplished through simultaneous implementation of the following strategies:

• Free-shared audio, visual, and PDF downloads
• Scholarship and intern programs for direct learning
• Videoing or live-streaming almost all classes and activities
• Tourism option for involvement in almost all aspects of One Community
• Dedicated and search engine optimized sections of our website for each key area
• Our established infrastructure that simultaneously posts to over 20 social networks

SUMMARY

One Community sees the issues of the world as interdependent and interconnected. To address them simultaneously, we are open-source blueprinting a more advanced standard of living by designing holistic, environmentally-regenerative, self-sustaining, adaptable solutions for all areas of sustainability. We will model these within a comprehensive “village/city” which will be built in the southwestern U.S. This teacher/demonstration hub will be a place people can experience a new way of living and then replicate it with our open source blueprints: creating a model solution that creates additional solution-creating models all aimed at cultivating global sustainability.